Identifying inhibitors of epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity using a network topology-based approach

K Hari, B Sabuwala, BV Subramani… - NPJ systems biology …, 2020 - nature.com
Metastasis is the cause of over 90% of cancer-related deaths. Cancer cells undergoing
metastasis can switch dynamically between different phenotypes, enabling them to adapt to …

Cell fate specification based on tristability in the inner cell mass of mouse blastocysts

L De Mot, D Gonze, S Bessonnard, C Chazaud… - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
During development, interactions between transcription factors control the specification of
different cell fates. The regulatory networks of genetic interactions often exhibit multiple …

Importance of feedback and feedforward loops to adaptive immune response modeling

A Rahman, A Tiwari, J Narula… - CPT: Pharmacometrics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The human adaptive immune system is a very complex network of different types of cells,
cytokines, and signaling molecules. This complex network makes it difficult to understand …

Mathematical modelling of quorum sensing in bacteria

RE Kannan, S Saini - INAE Letters, 2018 - Springer
In a bacterial population, the cell-to-cell communication using chemical molecule as a signal
in order to perform a collective task is called as quorum sensing. This communicating …

Multi-stability in cellular differentiation enabled by a network of three mutually repressing master regulators

AS Duddu, S Sahoo, S Hati… - Journal of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Identifying the design principles of complex regulatory networks driving cellular decision-
making remains essential to decode embryonic development as well as enhance cellular …

Operating principles of tristable circuits regulating cellular differentiation

D Jia, MK Jolly, W Harrison, M Boareto… - Physical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Many cell-fate decisions during embryonic development are governed by a motif comprised
of two transcription factors (TFs) A and B that mutually inhibit each other and may self …

Programming mRNA decay to modulate synthetic circuit resource allocation

OS Venturelli, M Tei, S Bauer, LJG Chan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Synthetic circuits embedded in host cells compete with cellular processes for limited
intracellular resources. Here we show how funnelling of cellular resources, after global …

Emergence of cooperative bistability and robustness of gene regulatory networks

S Nagata, M Kikuchi - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are complex systems in which many genes regulate
mutually to adapt the cell state to environmental conditions. In addition to function, the GRNs …

Ultrasensitivity and bistability in covalent-modification cycles with positive autoregulation

C Jeynes-Smith, RP Araujo - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Switch-like behaviours in biochemical networks are of fundamental significance in biological
signal processing, and exist as two distinct types: ultra-sensitivity and bistability. Here we …

Identifying (un) controllable dynamical behavior in complex networks

JC Rozum, R Albert - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
We present a technique applicable in any dynamical framework to identify control-robust
subsets of an interacting system. These robust subsystems, which we call stable modules …